A very basic question...

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Mark Lopa

I don't know where to ask this, but I hope someone here
can help. I am learning Javascript before moving on to
ASP, and have seen references to both "interactive"
webpages and "dynamic" webpages.

Is there a difference between the two?

Thank you,
Mark
 
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Mark Fitzpatrick

Mark,
Yes, there is a difference. Interactive pages mean that they react
to different things that are done to them. For example: You may click a
button to have the page calculate a mortgage payment with JavaScript, or
have a link reveal part of the page such as a topic being clicked to open a
list of articles under the topic. Dynamic pages don't have to have any
interactive features ( though they often do). It simply means that the
content in the page is generated by the server based on one or more
conditions. For example: a page that displays articles knows which article
to display based on a parameter passed to the page (such as articleid=100)
and pulls the appropriate content to display. It doesn't necessarily do this
based on any user interaction other than the user clicked on a normal link
that took him to the article page with the appropriate article id parameter.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage
 
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